[Footnote 93: Miss Forten was of partly negro blood. H. W. says of her elsewhere: "She has one of the sweetest voices I ever heard. The negroes all knew the instant they saw her what she was, but she has been treated by them with universal respect. She is an educated lady."] [Footnote 94: When General Hunter, bent on raising his negro troops, asked the Secretary of War for 50,000 muskets, "with authority to arm such loyal men as I find in the country, whenever, in my opinion, they can be used advantageously against the enemy," he added: "It is important that I should be able to know and distinguish these men at once, and for this purpose I respectfully request that 50,000 pairs of scarlet pantaloons may be sent me; and this is all the clothing I shall require for these people." (Hunter to Stanton, April 3, 1862.) Of the privates of the First S. C. V., when clothed in these trousers, Colonel Higginson writes: "Their coloring suited me, all but the legs, which were clad in a lively scarlet, as intolerable to my eyes as if I had been a turkey." (_Army Life in a Black Regiment_, p. 7.)] [Footnote 95: On the Georgia coast.] [Footnote 96: See p. 60.] [Footnote 97: Mr. Philbrick was staying at Coffin's for a few days.] [Footnote 98: The agreement made on April 8, between Mr. Philbrick and fourteen gentlemen, all but one of Boston, provided that Mr. Philbrick, in whose name the land should be bought and who should have complete responsibility for managing it, should, after paying the subscribers six per cent. interest, receive one fourth of the net profits. Mr. Philbrick was to be liable for losses and without the right to call for further contribution; on the other hand, no subscription was to be withdrawn unless he ceased to superintend the enterprise. On his closing the business, the net proceeds were to be divided _pro rata_.] [Footnote 99: Joe having gone back to his trade of carpenter, the domestic force now included a boy and a girl (daughter of Abel and sister of Hester), marvelously ignorant, even for a Sea Island field-hand. Uncle Sam, Robert's father, was acting as cook.] [Footnote 100: A boy lately added to the corps of house-servants at Coffin's Point.] [Footnote 101: From unwillingness to see the land owned by any one but negroes.] [Footnote 102: A detachment from the Eighteenth Army Corps, under Major-General John G. Foster, had come to help in the operations against Charleston.] [Footnote 103: The new postmaster for Beaufort.] [Footnote 104: A cousin in the 24th Massachusetts, which had come to Land's End as part of the "North Carolina army."] [Footnote 105: For lumber up the St. Mary's River, which separates Georgia from Florida.] [Footnote 106: See p. 162.] [Footnote 107: The history of the Department had been defined as "a military picnic."] [Footnote 108: A paper published at Beaufort.] [Footnote 109: Haunt of the drum-fish.]